The Fruits of America

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Excerpt from The Fruits of America: Containing Richly Colored Figures, and Full Descriptions of All the Choicest Varieties Cultivated in the United StatesI do not think it necessary to enter into any argument to show the great importance and value of colored drawings in identifying fruits, and detecting synonymes. They are now gen erally acknowledged, when accurately and truthfully executed, and accompanied with faithful descriptions, - to be the only safe and reliable means of arriving at certain and satisfactory conclu sions. The high estimation in which the elegant folios of Duhamel and Boiteau, and the splendidly-colored drawings in the Transactions of the London Horticultural Society, and the Pomological Magazine, are held by all Pomologists, attest this. They have been of essential service in accomplishing what has already been done towards the establishment of an uniform nomenclature.There is a national pride, too, which I feel in the publication of a work like this, and that is, that the delicious fruits which have been produced in our own country, many of them surpassed by none of foreign growth, - and which are rendered doubly the more valuable, because inured to our climate and adapted to our soil, - will be here beautifully depicted and thus show to the cultivators of the world that, though yet in the infancy of the art, the skill of our Pomologists, unaided, too, by the experience which cultivators abroad may so well claim, has already given them a fair start on the road to success, and, favored by Prov idence with a genial atmosphere and a cloudless sky, with the enterprise, intelligence, and perseverance, so characteristic of our people, why may we not hope that they will make the most rapid advance in a science whose results are so conducive to the health, the comfort, and the luxury of mankind.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.